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SEE: Red Panda Cubs Make Prospect Park Zoo Debut

"Take on Friday like three red panda cubs taking on the Prospect Park Zoo." The mayor said so.

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Two red panda cubs made their debut at the Prospect Park Zoo this week.
Two red panda cubs made their debut at the Prospect Park Zoo this week. (Prospect Park Zoo. )

PROSPECT PARK, BROOKLYN — There's a new cub in town.

Town as in the Prospect Park Zoo's red panda enclosure, that is.

The Brooklyn backyard animal sanctuary announced Thursday that its two tiniest new animals — a pair of adorable twin red pandas — are finally old enough to venture outside in sight of zoo visitors.

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(Julie Larsen Maher, Prospect Park Zoo).

The pandas, born over the summer, were bred with the help of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Species Survival Plan, which helps animals who are in danger of extinction. They are Styan red pandas, a subspecies from the eastern portion of the Himalayan range in China and northern Myanmar, the zoo said.

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(Julie Larsen Maher, Prospect Park Zoo).

The two still-unamed cubs have until now been kept in their indoor den with their mother, Willow. They will reach adulthood around 18 months.

And, rightfully so, they have already brought some panda-monium (sorry) online among New Yorkers excited to see them explore the outdoors:

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